While government has clearly signalled the importance it attaches to the growth of charitable
giving and philanthropy in building the Big Society, there has been little appraisal of what …

The charitable giving of UK households has changed considerably over the past 20 years.
In particular, the proportion of households giving to charity fell by 5 percentage points …

… Cathy Pharoah is Professor of Charity Funding and Co‑Director of the ESRC Research Centre
for … by Cathy Pharoah and published by CAF, it is estimated that there are approximately …

Charitable giving is an important source of funding for overseas development and emergency
relief. Donations in the UK are about a quarter of the size of government development aid. …

Within new conservative ideology, the responsibility for welfare will increasingly shift from the
state towards the Big Society concept in which the roles of the public, voluntary and private …

Research co-production is increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways to ensure
research impact. Rooted in ‘engaged scholarship’–the perspective that research is a collective …

This report aims to provide a better information platform on levels of giving through charitable
family foundations. The last few decades have seen escalating private wealth built on the …

While the previous chapter has looked at some of the broader issues around giving and
philanthropy, this chapter will focus in more detail on the question: why do we give away part of …

The UK has had a tremendous record of charitable giving, inspired largely by the work of
Victorian philanthropists. The introduction of the welfare state reduced the relative level of giving…

This report focus on the Top 300 UK independent charitable foundations, ranked by grant-making.
Although this number represents only a tiny section of the 10,000 plus UK foundations…